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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	188
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	95
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	41
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	38
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	37
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	37
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	34
Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling	31
Network Diffusion Under Homophily and Consolidation as a Mechanism for Social Inequality	24
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	22
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	22
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	22
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	18
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	16
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	14
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	14
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	12
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	11
Applying Responsive Survey Design to Small-Scale Surveys: Campus Surveys of Sexual Misconduct	11
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	11
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	11
Understanding the “Grievance Studies Affair” Papers and Why They Should Be Reinstated: A Response to Geoff Cole	11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	10
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	10
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	9

Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	9
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	9
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	9
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	8
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	8
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	8
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	8
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	8
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	7
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	7
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	7
Linking Input Inequality and Outcome Inequality	6
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	6
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries	6
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	6
Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning	6
A Theory of Higher Order Interactions Between Sensitive Variables: Empirical Evidences and an Application to a Variety of Smoking	6
Using Inverse Probability Weighting to Address Post-Outcome Collider Bias	6
Path Analysis for Binary Random Variables	6
Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition in health disparity research	6
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	5
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	5
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	5
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond: Putting Situationalism to Work for Qualitative Interviews	5
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	5
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	5
Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”	5
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning	5
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	4
Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research	4
Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments	4
Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference	4
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	4
Deep Learning With DAGs	4
Sequential On-Device Multitasking within Online Surveys: A Data Quality and Response Behavior Perspective	4
Visual Design and Cognition in List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Probing	4
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	3
Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse	3
The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation	3
Estimating Causal Effects of Multi-Valued Treatments Accounting for Network Interference: Immigration Policies and Crime Rates	3
Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences	3
The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer	3
Fear Not Scarcity but Inequality, Not Poverty but Instability	3
The Impact of Survey Mode Design and Questionnaire Length on Measurement Quality	3